jꜥw-r

Egyptian

Etymology

From jꜥw (“washing”, from jꜥj (“to wash”)) +‎ r (“mouth”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘washing of the mouth’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːuː ɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: iau-er

Noun

 m

1. breakfast

Inflection

Declension of jꜥw-r (masculine)

singular	jꜥw-r
dual	jꜥwwj-r
plural	jꜥww-r

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥw-r  

jꜥw-r	jꜥw-r	r
	[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]
abbreviation

References

• “jꜥ.w-rʾ (lemma ID 21640)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 39.23
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10